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The Quarter Pounder is a brand of hamburger introduced in 1971 by a Fremont, California franchisee of international fast food chain McDonald's and extended nationwide in 1973. . Its name refers to the beef patty having a precooked weight of approximately one quarter of a pound, originally portioned as four ounces (113.4 g) but increased to 4.25 oz (120 g) in 2015
The double cheeseburger was offered as a promotional item in the 1950s and was added to the regular menu in 1965, though many McDonald's restaurants did not list it on their menu boards. An official variant is offered in the U.S. state of New Mexico, called the Green Chile Double Cheeseburger, topped with roasted green New Mexico chile peppers.
Dozens of people across the U.S. have contracted E. coli traced to ingredients in McDonald's Quarter Pounders, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Tuesday. As a result ...
McDonald’s has proactively removed some ingredients used in its quarter pounder burgers such as onions and beef patties from stores in the impacted states while the investigation is underway ...
The Big N’ Tasty is a hamburger sold by the international fast food chain McDonald's.It is designed to compete with the Whopper sandwich. [3] A similar variation called the Big Tasty, without the center "N'", which was first released in Saudi Arabia, is sold outside the United States in parts of the United Kingdom, Europe, South America, South Africa, The Middle East, and Taiwan.
In October, an outbreak of E. coli at McDonald’s was linked to the company’s Quarter Pounder burgers, and, later, to the slivered onions used in their production.
McDonald's announced that Quarter Pounder burgers would return to restaurants affected by an E. coli outbreak in the coming week during a media briefing Sunday.. The announcement comes as the ...
Menu "classics" like the Quarter Pounder have made up a bulk of food sales in top McDonald's markets in recent years. The company's stock price tumbled nearly 10% in after-hours trading on Tuesday ...